Abram Deborin

Abram Moissejewitsch Deborin (also A. Mojsejewitsch Deborin, Russian Абрам Моисеевич Деборин; * 4 Junijul / June 16 1881greg in Kovno, Lithuania. . † March 8, 1963 in Moscow) was a Soviet philosopher and writer. In the years 1925-1930 he was a leading Marxist philosophers in the USSR.

In 1924, he criticized Georg Lukács ' History and Class Consciousness.

His authored in 1907, but until 1915 published in Russian business introduction to the philosophy of dialectical materialism was loud Leszek Kolakowski to the canon of philosophy in Russia. From 1926 Deborin was chief editor of the monthly magazine, Under the Banner of Marxism ( Pod Znamieniem Markszisma ). In this position he took in the fight against the dialecticians Mechanizisten, which was held in Soviet philosophy, a dominant position and was instrumental in the victory of the dialectician.

1931 were he and his followers, the so-called Deboristen, with Stalin in disgrace and Deborin was removed from the post of chief editor. However, he did not fall victim to the Stalinist purges and continued to publish numerous articles.

In the reign of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Deborin tried the rehabilitation of colleagues who had fallen and killed under Stalin in disgrace.

Source

Leszek Kolakowski: Main Currents of Marxism - creation, development, decay Volume 3, pp. 77-90.